Leviticus 25:23
And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
24And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father
Leviticus 25:10And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants of it. It shall be a jubilee to you, and ye shall return every man to his possession, and ye shall return every man to his famil
1 Kings 21:3And Naboth said to Ahab, LORD forbid it of me that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to thee.
2 Chronicles 7:20then I will pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them. And this house, which I have hallowed for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Keep not silent at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms 85:1LORD, thou have been favorable to thy land. Thou have brought back the captivity of Jacob.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 25:9-23
Institution of the Jubilee; the Year of the Jubilee. ( b. c. 1490.) 8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. 9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. 10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the… Read the whole commentary →